For LGBTQ+ people, Rsia is extremely hostile. Advote Evgeny Belyakov tells how got this way and how growg up gay the untry drove his activism.
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ON HOLDG HANDS AND FAKE MARRIAGE: STORI OF BEG GAY RSIA
Growg up gay the far east of Rsia, I knew I'd never be able to be myself * vladivostok gay *
Normally my acplishments would be a source of pri for iends and fay Rsia, except that I'm gay--which puts me the same tegory as crimals, dg alers, and universy I was fally able to fd my own circle of iends, but even there I didn't have the nfince to open up: not to my parents, not to my iends, certaly not to the whole world.
I wasn't ready to accept that I might be I was 24 and out of school, I fally admted to myself that I was gay and started to look for other people like me, but wasn't easy. Two or three bars existed Vladivostok that people lled "gay bars, " but a lot of straight people hang out there too--boys and girls who like unrground plac.
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It's hard to tell who's gay and who's straight the plac, but 's also hard to feel nfint and safe that environment.
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Even Grdr, one of the most popular gay apps the world, only showed about six people the Rsian far east.
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I eventually found one gay guy who I started to chat wh. We went the entire meal discsg non-gay topics, and wasn't until we asked for the check that he found the urage to talk about "gay" thgs, groups, clubs etc.